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Rolls-Royce Buys Allison Rolls-Royce has agreed to purchase the Allison engine company from finance house Clayton, Dubilier and Rice for $US525m on a debt free basis. Rolls-Royce intends making an equity issue to finance the purchase, with settlement not expected for three or four months while approval for the deal from US authorities is obtained.

A Good Idea But For All The Wrong Reasons Laurie Brereton has done it again. For what must be the fifth or sixth time in as many months he has set yet another large group of people into a tailspin over a dramatic and totally unexpected change in government policy. The latest foray into the

A Good Idea But For All The Wrong Reasons Laurie Brereton has done it again. For what must be the fifth or sixth time in as many months he has set yet another large group of people into a tailspin over a dramatic and totally unexpected change in government policy. The latest foray into the

Controlled Airspace? This story emanates from the protracted war that raged on, largely unnoticed by the outside world, during the late 1960s and right through the 1970s in Rhodesia (now the independent state of Zimbabwe). Rhodesian Security Forces faced a mammoth task of combating the continued incursions into Rhodesia of ever-increasing numbers of heavily armed

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Japanese Scout Helo Unveiled The contract was awarded by the Raaf as the air force has unveiled a mockup of the previously secret light observation helicopter it has been developing for the Japan Ground Self Defence Force (Jgsdf). The 3.5 tonne (7700lb) class Oh-X — has been designed to replace Japan’s Hughes/McDonnell Douglas Oh-6D light